Word: polishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play cannot succeed without a good Othello, but a better interpretation of Iago than that of Fred Graves might have redeemed the evening's procedings. Mr. Graves is an actor of some polish and a good deal of aplomb, but his Iago is a shallow study of the dissimulating Venetian. It was obvious from the faint smile on his face throughout the play that Mr. Graves was enjoying himself, in his characterization of Iago as a pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor...
When Jerzy Gliksman, a Polish Socialist, was about to be released, in 1941, from the Siberian forced labor camp in which he had been held for a year, he asked a fellow prisoner if he could help...
Fumble. The strong U.S. delegation, headed by William B. Benton, got off to a weak start. It introduced a resolution calling for "the fullest possible" freedom for foreign correspondents to go wherever they wanted. Polish Delegate Victor Grosz then made an embarrassing point: in the past two years 250 American correspondents had been admitted to his country, on as little as two days' notice. But, he said, one Polish journalist had been waiting since Jan. 27 for a U.S. visa...
Russia tried to handcuff this resolution with an amendment that news should be a propaganda weapon "for eradication of Fascism and Fascist ideology," a handy way of justifying the Kremlin-controlled press. Stooging for Russia, Polish Delegate Grosz, wanted U.S. newspapers condemned as "warmongers." The amendment was beaten 27 to 5, the five being the Russian bloc (Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia...
This week, as the Concertgebouw gets ready to celebrate its 60th birthday, there is only one orchestra in Europe that can approach it in perfection and polish-Vienna's 100-year-old Philharmonic (TIME, March 29). Europe had heard and judged: in the last year, the sprightly Concertgebouw has played 17 concerts in foreign countries. After its London concert, the Daily Mail reflected sadly: "This famous orchestra plays with a keenness and vitality that we are not used to in London." The Manchester Guardian admitted: "We could match its players, but not the quality of execution that could come...